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by mgfist 5y ago
> Taking a moment to think about how utterly crazy it is that in 2022 a company with a significant dataset of private and public communications, that has municipalities, companies and governments on the platform, can switch ownership wit
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by mgfist 5y ago
If you watch any of the starbase videos (part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw ) It's clear he knows a thing or two about rockets. Obv no single person is designing the thing, but it's clear he's
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by mgfist 5y ago
I think the issue is that you're not taught how to interview people. So usually you'll notice that you need to do an interview in a few hours and scramble to think of what to ask and leetcode is the easiest thing that comes to min
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by mgfist 5y ago
You picked the (probably?) single highest performing stock in the past 10 years. Call it luck, but it's not luck because you were born rich. What if you invested in any of the other hundreds of companies that have gone bankrupt or lost
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I don't think he is. He stated that he doesn't see a future for Twitter with current management.
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Shareholders can vote no. It's why having a majority shareholder is so powerful. But also it's the job of the regulatory body to be the check for society
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Supply shocks (from covid + ukraine war) are a much bigger reason.
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by mgfist 5y ago
This whole discussions reminds me of this great scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ak-SmyHHQ Humans will always accept some axiom as truth without really verifying it. It's impossible to do so. Can any single pe
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by mgfist 5y ago
So? It's not your responsibility for someone else's insecurity - and in fact, if you stop to assume that they think this way, you'll find that they 9/10 times do not.
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Spinning up services for local dev is still in spirit. As long as it's something you can do is isolation from other devs/users it serves the function.
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by mgfist 5y ago
Many companies, and (most?) tech companies have trading black out periods that are lifted for about a month a few days after earnings. It applies to your personal brokerage account too, even though they can't technically enforce it.
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Living in Manhattan is a cheat code for this
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They're quite different actually. A gun does not guarantee MAD. Hence why the invention of firearms did not end wars. If I had a gun and you had a gun, I can kill you with said gun before you fire your weapon. That's not the case
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by mgfist 5y ago
The world can't afford to lose TSMC. Until there is a replacement I don't see this happening. China relies on TSMC too.
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ASML has 4750 suppliers. The supply chain in the chip world is probably the most complex system in existence. Both astounding and frightening.
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Vesting has upsides. Your company essentially fronts you free capital on the stipulation that you invest it in the company's stock with specific lockups. Essentially it comes down to two choices: do you think cash over the course of yo
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by mgfist 5y ago
A CEO isn't a dictator. They still need board support. If everyone on the board decided that Jack wasn't the guy anymore, Jack can't wave a magic wand and make them disappear. CEOs have been ousted many times.
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by mgfist 5y ago
I stand by my take. A good engineer is not guaranteed to be a good lead. And a bad engineer isn't guaranteed to be a bad lead. They are different roles. Most competent companies let good engineers who won't be good leads stay in I
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by mgfist 5y ago
Being an engineer is just that - an engineer. It's different from being a leader. Being a "10x" engineer just makes you a better engineer, it doesn't mean you're any more capable of making a decision that would gene
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by mgfist 5y ago
It's not that simple. The components of a chip go through something like 40-50 countries, and include tens of thousands of suppliers. Involved in this are some of the most sophisticated technologies known to man. To centralize all of t
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by mgfist 5y ago
You don't need to store that much energy. It's much more cost-efficient to over-provision energy sources. In a few decades we will see solar over-provisioned to 2-3x normal consumption and some battery and that will provide 100% u
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by mgfist 5y ago
> You're taking proprietary code and running it on a competitors platform? Do you not realize how dumb this sounds? Companies run critical code/infrastructure on AWS to the tune of many billions of dollars a year.
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Ah I know. Let's have a review to see if we need a D&I review!!
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I wouldn't say it's cynical. At the end of the day companies don't live unless they can make money. So that, by necessity, is step 1.
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I use RH sometimes to look at prices and then go back to Etrade to make actual trades.
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> right/security or wrong/money :-) right/no users or wrong/yes users Not much point being right if no one uses the product :)
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I don't know much about this space but a half million dollar marketcap is absolutely tiny and non-news. BTC market cap is what, close to a trillion or something?
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> I’d take clear code that wasn’t working over code that was hard to reason about and somehow worked every day. Then you'd be out of business.
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Here's my most common use case: 1) Need to do a hotfix on some bug. Fastest fix is to just turn off something. 2) I turn it off (maybe commenting out the line) then add a TODO above it with the ticket number that corresponds to the tic
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TBH I was shocked $5 million was all it cost.

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